Getting the premission denied error and jupyter notebook doesn't save, also I don't see the submit assignment button

I have no idea what would cause that, but I can think of two theories:

  1. There is something wrong with the way your account is set up. How are you paying for the courses? Is it a subscription to the whole specialization? Or are you doing it one course at a time?
  2. There is something generic wrong on the servers right now.

Option 2) may be serious as I see a number of messages like yours from several students in C4 and C5 just over the last hour or so. E.g. there are three of you on this thread having similar sounding problems all at the same time.

I will try to raise the attention of some of the course staff and see if they can help.